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Earlier Work: drawings, panels and prints

‘In various series Mette Stausland circles around this core of her works. Sometimes putting more emphasis on the individuality of the single lines, and then sometimes on the dense network of the all-over of a mass of lines. Characteristic for this movement are two groups of works from 2003/05 and 2005/06.

The first series is a group of detached line-drawings on paper which shine through a layer of colour. As a rule, the works are made in two steps. The first is the drawing on paper with a piece of charcoal. The second consists of a gently pressed monotype from a wood-block or a lithograph stone. The forms appear to have come about in the continuous movement of lines without interruption in one or a few steps. They vaguely recall vegetative drawings by Henri Matisse or Ellsworth Kelly. In their mixture of expressive tension and relaxed energy, they possess a kind of solemn intimacy which is subtly enhanced by the censuring procedure of superimposition.’